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The  Lineage  of  Lichfield 


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Lineage  of  Lichfield 

An  Essay  in  Eugenics 


By 
James  Branch  Cabell 


atavis  edite  re  gibus, 
o  el  presidium  et  dulce  decus  meum 


NEW  YORK 
ROBERT  M.  McBRIDE  fef  COMPANY 

1922 


Copyright,  1922, 

'       by 
JAMES  BRANCH  CABELL 


The  Lineage  of  Lichfield 


798836 


The  Epistle  Dedicatory 

•  » •  *t*  * 

To  Lewis  Galantiere 

OU  have  herewith  the  book  which  yoii 
once  desired  me  to  make,  in  just  the 
utterly  unreadable  form  which  you  sug 
gested.  Indeed,  I  can  now  see  that  in  no  less 
devastating  manner  could  I  well  dispose  of  the 
questions  you  then  asked,  a  bit  sceptically,  as 
to  "the  connecting  theme"  of  my  books  in  gross. 
For  the  quite  obvious  connection  is  the  fact 
that  they  constitute  a  largish  family  tree,  which 
I  herewith  present  for  your  confusion.  It  is  a 
genealogy — although  for  reasons  that  are  here 
inafter,  I  trust,  made  plain,  the  compiler  elects 
to  call  it  a  Biography — of  which  the  evolution 
was  begun  as  far  back  as  1901,  when  I  wrote  the 
first  of  the  stories  afterward  bound  up  together 
as  The  Line  of  Love.  And  the  general  "method" 
followed  in  that  volume — of  depicting  a  decisive 
passage  in  the  lives  of  two  persons,  then  a  sim 
ilar  untying  of  knots  in  the  life  of  a  child  of  that 
couple,  and  yet  afterward  in  one  of  the  grand 
children's  life-history — has  been  extended,  but 
never  altered,  in  my  succeeding  volumes.  The 
most  plain  connection  of  my  various  books  is, 
thus,  precisely  the  same  connection  that  exists 
between  the  several  stories  in  my  first  written 
book,  The  Line  of  Love.  And  all  traces — pretty 


8  THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

clearly  now — from  Dom  Manuel,  and  the 
descendants  whom  he  and  Alianora  left  in  Eng 
land,  and  the  other  descendants  whom  he  and 
Niafer  left  in  Poictesme,  and  from  the  eleven 
images  that  he  and  Freydis  informed  with  fire 
from  Audela,  and  set  to  live  as  men  among  man 
kind. 

But  in  a  deeper  sense,  I  like  to  think,  the 
coherency  of  these  books  is  not  merely  genea- 
logic.  ...  Beyond  Life  now  stands  as  a  sort  of 
preface  to  embody  the  vital  and  aesthetic  theo 
ries  thereafter  builded  on,  as  well  as  generally 
to  indicate  the  forces  to  which  my  protagonist 
later  reacts.  Forthwith  you  have  Manuel,  and 
have  Jurgen,  posed  as  the  ancestors  and  life- 
sources  of  all  my  leading  characters.  Forth 
with,  too,  you  have  my  protagonist.  For  it  is 
the  life  of  Manuel,  and  the  life  of  Jurgen,  as  this 
life  is  perpetuated  in  the  descendants  of  each, 
that  I  continue  to  tell  about.  The  vital  principle 
of  each  of  these  extreme  types  is  presently 
blended  with  the  other,  in  the  person  and  in  the 
progeny  of  Melite  de  Puysange;  and  the  com 
pound — need  one  say? — is  very  variously  af 
fected  and  guided  and  foiled  by  the  milieu  in 
which  it  thereafter  happens  to  find  itself.  But, 
actually,  with  Manuel's  life,  and  in  somewhat 
less  degree  with  Jurgen's  life,  as  each  life  is 
transmitted  through  a  score-and-odd  of  genera 
tions  down  to  the  present  continuance  of  this 
life  in  Lichfield, — and  with,  in  most  cases,  I 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD  9 

hasten  to  assure  you,  each  of  its  renewals  pref 
aced  by  an  edifyingly  proper  matrimonial  pro 
logue, — actually,  with  this  protagonist  are  my 
books  concerned  always.  .  .  . 

Manuel,  let  me  say  here,  I  planned  to  be  the 
type  which  finds  its  sole,  if  incomplete,  expres 
sion  in  action:  I  have,  in  consequence,  been  at 
some  trouble  to  refrain  from  ascribing  to  Dom 
Manuel  any  thoughts  whatever.  And  Jurgen 
was  designed  to  illustrate  Dom  Manuel's  utmost 
contrary,  in  that  Jurgen  derives  his  real,  his 
deepest,  his  one  unfailing  pleasure,  from  the 
exercise  of  his — if  the  fact  may  here  be  rather 
bluntly  outspoken  without  offending  my  friend 
and  benefactor,  Mr.  John  S.  Sumner, — in  the 
exercise,  I  repeat,  of  his  intelligence.  To  Jur 
gen,  the  progenitor  of  all  the  poets  and  all  the 
inadequate,  unpractical  persons  in  my  books, 
the  most  interesting  thing  in  the  world — in  fact, 
the  one  wholly  worth-while  thing, — is  to  watch 
his  own  brain  working,  especially  when  this  fine 
curious  toy  is  set  to  outmatch  the  workings  of 
some  other  brain.  .  .  .  Between  these  two 
extremes  range  the  inherited  traits  of  their 
descendants,  who  display,  not  unnaturally,  an 
occasional  marked  family  resemblance.  And 
the  "connecting  theme"  of  the  books,  viewed  in 
this  light,  would  seem  to  be  the  lean  and  dusty 
axiom  that  human  beings  and  human  living  are 
pretty  much  the  same  in  most  times  and  sta 
tions,  and  come  by  varying  roads,  as  did  Jurgen 


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the  pawnbroker  and  Manuel  the  high  Count,  to 
pretty  much  the  same  end. 

Yet,  underlying  all,  of  course,  is  the  pro- 
founder  "connecting  theme"  that  Horvendile  is 
the  erratic  demiurge  who  composes  and  controls 
the  entire  business  extempore,  without  any 
prompter  except  his  own  aesthetic  whims:  but 
that  is  really  a  matter  almost  too  complex  here 
to  explain.  Rather  does  discretion  urge  me  to 
refer  you  to  Saevius  Nicanor's  fine  chapter  on 
this  very  interesting  theory.  For  it  all  comes 
back  to  theory,  and  to  the  cooling  reflection 
that  it  is  the  nature  of  every  explanatory  theory 
to  be  evolved  after  the  phenomena  it  accounts 
for, — even,  I  suspect,  when  it  is  one's  own 
theory  about  one's  own  books. 


In  any  event,  it  was  your  suggestion,  some 
while  ago,  that  I  compile  and  put  in  order  such 
a  selection  from  Colonel  Rudolph  Musgrave's 
books  and  from  his  various  genealogical  notes 
and  articles  (now  occultly  enriching  the  back 
files  of  the  Lichfield  Historical  Association  s 
Quarterly  Magazine)  as  would  make  plain  the 
family  connection  between  my  chronicles  of 
Lichfield  and  the  stories  of  Poictesme.  Here 
then  is  that  selection.  Hereinafter  is  that  rela 
tionship  set  forth,  very  simply  and  baldly,  with 
no  effort  toward  any  of  the  auctorial  graces  save 
the  lean  virtue  of  clarity.  Just  to  be  clear  is 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         n 

my  one  aim:  and  so  I  need  not  tell  you  that  I 
hereinafter  avoid  all  pedantry  and  shun  the 
antiquary's  vice  of  larding  his  clipped  j  argon  with 
as  many  tatters  of  strange  tongues  and  pa 
triarchal  spelling  as  he  can  possibly  lug  in  any 
where  that  plain  English  would  serve  him  better. 
Now  on  the  face  of  it,  as  I  have  confessed,  the 
thing  is  a  pedigree  which  indicates  the  descent  of 
various  persons,  about  whom  I  have  written  the 
stories  and  books  named  marginally,  from  Dom 
Manuel  of  Poictesme.  In  reality,  I  think,  this 
volume  is  an  outline — or,  say,  a  map — of  some 
nine  centuries  of  Dom  Manuel's  life,  the  life  of 
which  my  other  books  are  the  Biography.  For, 
be  it  repeated,  the  life  that  informed  tall  Manuel 
the  Redeemer  did  not  become  extinct  when  the 
old  champion  rode  westward  with  Grandfather 
Death:  the  body  and  the  appearance  of  Dom 
Manuel  was  gone,  but  his  life  remained  per 
petuated  in  divers  children — in,  to  be  accurate, 
a  respectable  total  of  sixteen  persons, — who 
afterward  transmitted  this  life  to  their  progeny, 
as  did  they  in  turn  to  their  own  offspring.  So 
this  life  flowed  on  through  time — and  through 
such  happenings  in  France  and  England  and 
America  as,  one  by  one,  my  books  have  re 
corded, — with  every  generation  dividing  and 
subdividing  the  troubled  and  attritioned  flowing 
into  more  numerous  streamlets.  And  Manuel's 
life  came  thus  to  Lichfield,  by  and  by,  and  is 
not  yet  extinct  in  my  contemporary  Townsends 


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and  Kennastons  and  Musgraves,  of  all  whom  I 
hereinafter  trace  out  for  you  the  descent  from 
Manuel. 

It  is  about  this  life  that  I  have  written  else 
where,  in  many  places,  in  various  chapters  of  a 
Biography  which  is  largish  now,  but  stays  in 
complete,  and  will  not  ever  be  completed.  For 
this  human  life,  as  I  write  about  it,  appears  to 
me  a  stream  that,  in  journeying  toward  an  un 
predictable  river,  itself  the  tributary  of  an 
unplumbed  ocean,  is  fretted  equally  (still  to 
preserve  the  fluvial  analogue)  by  the  winds  of 
time  and  by  many  pebbles  of  chance.  So  are 
there  various  ripples  raised  upon  the  stream  as 
it  goes — ultimately — seaward:  and,  noting 
these,  we  say  this  ripple  is  Manuel,  that 
Ormskirk,  and  the  other  Charteris;  noting  also 
that  while  we  name  it  the  small  stir  is  gone. 
But  the  stream  remains  unabated,  nor  is  the 
sureness  of  its  moving  lessened,  any  more  than 
is  the  obscurity  of  its  goal. 

3 

Or  let  us  shift  the  figure.  Let  us  rather  liken 
this  continuously  reincarnated  life  of  Manuel 
to  an  itinerant  comedian  that  with  each  genera 
tion  assumes  the  garb  of  a  new  body,  and  upon 
a  new  stage  enacts  a  variant  of  yesterday's 
drama.  For  I  do  not  find  the  comedy  ever  to 
be  much  altered  in  its  essentials.  The  first  act 
is  the  imagining  of  the  place  where  contentment 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         13 

exists  and  may  be  come  to;  and  the  second  act 
reveals  the  striving  toward,  and  the  third  act  the 
falling  short  of,  that  shining  goal,  or  else  (the 
difference  here  being  negligible)  the  attaining  of 
it  to  discover  that  happiness,  after  all,  abides  a 
thought  farther  down  the  bogged,  rocky, 
clogged,  befogged  heartbreaking  road,  if  any 
where.  That  is  the  comedy  which,  to  my  find 
ing,  the  life  I  write  about  has  enacted  over  and 
over  again  on  every  stage  between  Poictesme 
and  Lichfield. 

I  call  it  a  comedy.  Really  there  is  thin  sus 
tenance  for  the  tragic  muse  in  the  fact  that  with 
each  performance  the  costume  of  the  protag 
onist  is  spoiled,  and  the  human  body  temporar 
ily  informed  with  Manuel's  life  is  thrown  per 
force  to  the  dust-heap.  There  is  not  even 
apparent,  to  reflection,  any  economic  loss:  for 
the  wardrobe  of  this  mundivagant  posturer  is 
self-replenishing,  in  that  as  each  costume  is  used 
it  thriftily  begets  new  apparel  for  the  comedian 
to  ruin  in  tomorrow's  rendering  of  the  old  play. 
The  parent's  flesh  is  flung  by  like  an  outworn 
coat:  but  the  comedian,  reclad  with  the  child's 
body,  tricked  out  with  strong  fresh  sinews  and 
re-rouged  with  youth,  is  lustily  refurbishing, 
with  a  garnish  of  local  allusions  and  of  the  latest 
social  and  religious  and  political  slang,  all  yes 
terday's  archaic  dialogue  and  inveterate  "sit 
uations.'* 


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4 

Now  in  the  light  of  this  comoedic  metaphor — 
the  metaphor  which  upon  the  whole  I  prefer, — 
the  researches  of  Colonel  Musgrave  can  deal 
with  no  large  portion  of  the  vagabond's  ward 
robe.  For  the  colonel  has  of  course  concerned 
himself  with  only  that  relatively  brief  part  of 
the  tour  wherein  life  has  worn  human  bodies. 
Previously,  they  whisper,  the  scenery  was 
arboreal,  and  our  comedian  wore  fur  and  a  tail; 
as  before  that  his  costume  was  reptilian,  and 
yet  earlier  was  piscine.  So  do  the  scientists 
trace  backward  his  career  to  life's  first  appear 
ance  upon  the  stage,  when  the  vis  comic  a  which 
later  was  to  animate  the  thews  of  Manuel  had 
for  its  modest  apparel  only  a  small  single  bubble 
embedded  in  primeval  slime. 

Always,  one  perceives,  our  comedian  has 
dressed  his  role  with  increasing  elaborateness, 
progressing  from  a  mere  pinhead  of  sentiency  to 
all  the  intricate  fripperies  of  the  human  body, 
with  its  wealth  of  modern  improvements  in  the 
form  of  forward-looking  bifocal  eyes  and  pre 
hensile  fingers  and  multiloquent  lips.  And  so 
magnificently  has  he,  through  many  centuries  of 
endeavor,  reorganized  his  stage-setting  in  the 
sundry  nooks  of  Earth  enriched  with  his  main 
centres  of  civilization  and  his  stupendous  ful 
minating  wars  that  it  is  not  past  the  reach  of 
poetic  imagining  to  suppose  the  telescopes  of 
Earth's  nearest  neighbor  may  quite  possibly 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         15 

have  detected  some  one  of  these  fermenting 
pustules. 

That  proud  contingency  as  yet  stays  guess 
work,  but  less  remotely  this  comedian  has  made 
sure  of  his  art's  last  need.  Upon  Earth's  epi 
dermis  he  has  created  an  audience  more  certain 
and  immediate  than  those  it  may  be  interested 
Martians,  by  very  patiently  training  some  cells 
in  the  human  brain  once  in  a  while  to  think. 
And  since  every  form  of  aesthetic  effort  is  spurred 
by  any  prospect  of  applause  from  any  source 
however  trivial,  one  must  surmise  that  the  per 
formance  is  given  with  renewed  gusto  now  the 
comedian's  antics  may  be  marvelled  over  by 
this  gray  beading  so  unobtrusively  inwrought 
into  his  latest  costume. 

Yet  there  is  a  drawback  to  this  evolving  of 
man's  brain  as  a  dramatic  critic.  It  is  that  the 
one  honest  verdict  to  be  wrung  from  the  small 
wet  sponge,  which  lines,  they  say,  the  skulls  of 
patriotic  orators  and  of  our  popular  clergy  too, 
must  always  be  a  lament  that,  even  in  the 
primordial  ooze,  the  drama  was  (and,  for  that 
matter,  bids  fair  to  remain,  in  the  last  cold 
electric-lit  futurity)  a  bit  depressingly  confined 
to  this  theme  of  striving  toward  a  goal  that, 
gained  or  lost,  proves  not  to  be  the  true  goal, 
after  all.  And  then  da  capo!  .  .  .  Yes,  it  really 
is  depressing,  because  there  is  in  this  unending 
captaincy  of  a  forlorn  hope,  in  this  futile  and 
obstinate  romanticism  of  life's  vaudeville,  just 


16         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

the  element  to  which  our  most  applauded 
"realists"  most  strenuously  object,  as  being 
untrue  to  life;  and  in  the  withering  light  of  our 
best  aesthetic  theories,  the  performance  seems 
wanly  rococo  and  unreal. 

5 

Still,  I  spoke  overrashly  of  futurity,  before 
which,  really,  my  imaginings  baulk.  For  to 
morrow  the  age-old  comedian  will  be  doing  and 
wearing  none  knows  what,  although  in  reason 
the  restless  artist  that  we  call  life  cannot  long 
stay  content  with  human  bodies  for  his  apparel 
and  medium.  Already,  in  considerate  eyes,  life 
tends  to  some  more  handsome  expression,  by 
means  of  the  harnessed  chemistries  and  explo 
sions,  and  collaborating  flywheels  and  .vapors, 
and  wire-dancing  thunderbolts,  that  in  all  our 
cities  dwarf  the  human  beings  who  serve  as  the 
release  levers.  Already,  a  many  philosophers 
recognize,  we  are  so  generally  fed  and  clothed 
and  sheltered  and  carried  everywhither  by 
machinery  that  we  can  lay  no  grave  claim  to  be 
thought  more  than  its  parasites.  And  already 
the  era  appears  well  in  sight  when  every  need  of 
civilization  and  every  business  of  life  will  be  dis 
charged  by  the  pressure  of  electric  buttons,  and 
when,  in  America  at  least,  the  one  essential 
part  of  man  will  be  his  forefinger. 

But  at  prophecy,  I  repeat,  I  baulk.  I  am 
duly  tempted  to  weigh  the  likelihood  that  with 


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disuse  the  other  members  of  the  inhabitants  of 
these  states  will  disappear,  and  that  our  national 
nicety  will  then  make  an  end  of  all  by  suppress 
ing  this  surviving  forefinger  as  a  probably 
phallic  symbol.  But  into  these  high  considera 
tions  there  is  happily  no  need  to  enter.  It  may 
seem  to  hidebound  logic  quite  certain  that 
human  beings  are  just  one  season's  fashion  in 
life's  clothes,  and  that  next  season  something 
entirely  different  will  be  worn.  With  such 
sartorial  forecasts  I  have  here  no  quarrel,  and  if 
I  do  not  tell  you  the  real  truth  of  the  matter  it 
is  merely  because  I  do  not  know  it.  I  merely 
know  that,  even  though  the  life  of  our  planet 
may  by  and  by  discard  mankind  just  as  it  has 
discarded  the  dodo  and  the  dinosaur,  at  present 
men  and  women  are  life's  latest  clothing:  and  I 
take  it  to  be  the  part  of  urbanity  to  accept  the 
mode  of  our  day.  So  I  must  tacitly  confine 
myself  to  this  one  season  in  Dom  Manuel's 
endlessly  roving  life, — and  in  your  life  and 
mine, — and  neither  here  nor  in  my  books  may  I 
presume  to  prattle  of  apotheoses. 

Dumbarton  Grange 

August,  IQ2I 


The  Lineage  of  Lichfield 

Being  a  'partial  list  of  the  descendants  of  Dom 
Manuel,  Count  of  Poictesme,  as  compiled  from 
the  books  and  papers  of  R.  V.  Musgrave. 


Figures  above  the  line  indicate  the  generation  in  descent  from 
Dom  Manuel  of  Poictesme.  Dates  prior  to  1752  are  Old  Style, 
except  that  the  year  is  estimated  as  beginning  i  January. 

Abbreviations  Employed: 

b.  =  born. 
bapt.  =  baptized. 
dau.  =  daughter. 
d.s.p.  =  decessit  sine  prole. 

m.=  married. 
unm.  =  unmarried. 


The  Lineage  of  Lichfield 


ANUEL1  the  Redeemer,   Count   of  FIGURES 
Poictesme,b.23Dec.i2i3,d.29Sept.     F  EART 
1 239, was,  according  to  tradition,  the 
son  of  the  water  demon  Oriander  and  the  peasant 
girl  Dorothy  of  the  White  Arms,  who  is  called  in 
one  version  of  the  story  Vraswen.    The  perhaps 
partly  mythical  exploits  of  Dom  Manuel1  form 
the  basis  of  the  familiar  mediaeval  romance  Les 
Gestes  de  Manuel,    now    accessible  to  English 
readers  in  the  Selborne  Series.     Of  the  other 
relatives  of  Manuel1  nothing  is  known  except 
that  his  half-sister  Matthiette  was  the  wife  of 
Meunier,  Comte  de  Montors,   and  had  issue: 
Gui,  Comte  de  Montors;  and  Ayrart  de  Montors,  DOMNEI 
afterward  Pope. 

By  a  matrimonial  alliance  with  Niafer,  b. 
circa  1210,  m.  3  Nov.  1235,  d.  spring  of  1277, 
(the  dau.,  according  to  some  historians,  of  the 
Soldan  of  Barbary),  Dom  Manuel1  had  issue: 
Melicent2;  Emmerick2,  who  succeeded  his  father 
as  Count  of  Poictesme,  b.  June  1237,  acci 
dentally  killed  by  his  nephew  Raymondin3  de  la 
Foret  26  July  1300,  m.  Radegonde,  then  the 
widow  of  King  Elphanor,  and  left  issue  (for 
whom,  compare  Lewistam's  Popular  Tales  of 
Poictesme,  Appendix  F);  Dorothy2,  called  La  JURGEN 
Desiree,  b.  Dec.  1238,  d.  1292,  m.,  in  1256, 


21 


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THE  LINEAGE  OF  LICHFIELD 


Heitman  Michael  of  Asch,  and  left  descendants 

THE  CREAM     (again,     compare     Lewistam);     and     Ettarre*, 
OF  THE  JEST   called  La  g^  b    Oct    ^^  m    ^  Gu{rQn  des 

Rocques  (who,  circa  1276,  succeeded  his  elder 
brother  Etienne  as  Prince  de  Gatinais),  but  of 
her  issue  no  record  survives. 


FIGURES 
OF  EARTH, 
DOMNEI 


FIGURES 
OF  EARTH 


THE  LINE 
OF  LOVE: 

The 

Wedding 

Jest 


Adhelmar 
at 

Puysange 


Melicent2,  b.  Aug.  1236,  d.  Feb.  1324,  m.  (i) 
Demetrios  of  Anatolia,  who  was  lord  of  the 
region  between  Quesiton  and  Nacumera  (b. 
1233,  d.  July  1274,  son  of  the  noted  magician 
Miramon  Lluagor  and  Gisele  d'Arnaye),  by 
whom  Melicent2  had  no  issue.  Melicent2  m. 
(2),  in  1274,  a  French  nobleman,  Perion,  Comte 
de  la  Foret  (b.  1233,  d.  14  Jan.  1315),  by  whom 
she  had,  with  other  issue:  Adelaide*  de  la  Foret; 
and  Raymondin3  de  la  Foret,  b.  1279,  d.  1340, 
m.  Melusine,  b.  circa  1230,  (dau.  of  that  King 
Helmas  of  Albania  whom  Dom  Manuel1  con 
verted  from  folly),  and  left  issue  ten  sons,  for 
whom  compare  Desaivres'  Le  My  the  de  la  Mere 
Lusine,  p.  148,  Niort,  1882. 

Adelaide3  de  la  Foret,  b.  1275,  d.  1332,  m. 
in  1293,  Ralph,  Comte  de  Nointel  (b.  1267,  d. 
Nov.  1320),  and  had,  with  other  issue:  Henri4 

de  Nointel,  b.  1299,  d.  1335,  m. (a  dau. 

of  Adhelmar  de  Perdigon),  and  had  a  son,  Sir 
Adhelmar5  de  Nointel  (hero  of  the  mediaeval 
romance,  Les  A 'ventures  d' Adhelmar)  y  b.  May 
1332,  d.  unm.  24  Oct.  1356;  and  Sylvie*  de 
Nointel. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI  CH  FIELD         23 


Sylvie4  de  Nointel,  b.   1305,  d.   Dec.   1345, 
m.  in  May  1323,  Florian,  Vicomte  de  Puysange,  Jest 
b.  1269,  d.  2  Feb.  1347  (the  reputed  son  of  Poio 
tesme's  legendary  Jurgena  and  Felise  de  Puy-  (JURGEN) 
sange:  see  La  Haulte  Histoire  de  Jurgen,  in  the 
eighth    chapter),    and    had,   with   other   issue: 
Reinault5,  Vicomte  de  Puysange,  b.   1324,  d.  Adhelmar  at 
1375,  m.   Berthe  --  ,   and   left  issue;   and 
M  elite5  de  Puysange. 

Melite5  de  Puysange,  b.  1337,  d.  20  Aug. 
1363,  m.  in  Oct.  1360,  a  Norman  lord,  Hugues, 
Sieur  d'Arques,  b.  1330,  d.  Dec.  1387.  The 
Sieur  d'Arques,  in  the  wars  attendant  upon  the 
transfer  of  the  French  throne  to  the  house  of 
Valois,  sided  with  the  English,  and  after  the 
peace  of  Bretigni,  signed  in  Sept.  1360,  he 
settled  in  England,  near  Yaxham  in  Norfolk. 
The  name  was  Anglicized  as  Darke.  Hugues 
d'Arques  and  Melite5  de  Puysange  had  issue: 
Sylvia5  Darke;  Adelais6  Darke,  b.  July  1361,  d. 
unm.  18  March  1415;  and  Hugh6  Darke,  b.  Aug. 
1363,  d.  June  1404,  m.  Maude  de  Spencer,  and 
had  a  son,  Roger7  Darke,  b.  1395,  d.  1427,  m.  "Sweet  ^ 
Lucy  Archer,  and  left  descendants. 

Sylvia6  Darke,  b.  July  1361,  d.  loNov.  1419. 
m.  in  1379,  Sir  Robert  Vernon  of  Winstead,  b. 
1355,  d.  16  Aug.  1419,  and  had,  with  other 

•Biilg,  it  may  here  be  said,  fixes  the  birth  date  of  Jurgen  as  8 
April  1235,  and  estimates  that  the  pawnbroker  set  forth  on  his 
supernal  adventurings  30  April  1277.  The  replevined  Wednesday 
would,  by  this  chronology,  have  been  borrowed  from  the  August 
of  1256. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 


"Sweet 
Adelais" 


The 

Conspiracy  of 
Arnaye 


In  Necessity's 
Mortar 


The 

Conspiracy  of 
Arnaye 


issue:  Sir  Hugh7  Vernon,  knighted  at  Agincourt, 
b.  1380,  d.  May  1431,  m.  Isabel —  — ,  and  left 
descendants  (for  whom,  compare  Villiers'  Visi 
tations  of  Norfolk,  in  "Vernon  of  Oke");  Jane7 
Vernon,  b.  1387,  m.,  in  1404,  Henry  Heleigh, 
Earl  of  Brudenel,  and  had  numerous  issue; 
Sylvia7  Vernon,  b.  1390,  m.,  in  June  1410, 
Richard  Degge,  Earl  of  Venour;  and  Adelais1 
Vernon . 

Adelais7  Vernon,  b.  1402,  d.  Oct.  1429,  m., 
30  Sept.  1422,  Fulke,  Sieur  d'Arnaye,  b.  1395, 
d.  Feb.  1429,  one  of  the  French  prisoners  taken 
at  Agincourt.  This  couple  made  their  home  in 
France,  and  had  issue:  Noel8  d'Arnaye;  and 
Raymond8,  Sieur  d'Arnaye  1473-98,  b.  1426,  d. 
Jan.  1498,  m.  Anne  de  Nerac,  and  left  descend 
ants. 

Noel8  d'Arnaye,  called  Le  Joli,  Sieur  d'Arnaye 
1429-73,  b.  1425,  d.  26  Dec.  1473,  m.,  in  Sept. 
1462,  Catherine  de  Vaucelles,  b.  1439,  d.  in 
autumn  of  1470,  and  had  issue  only: 

Matthiette9  d'Arnaye,  b.  1467,  d.  8  Aug. 
1516,  m.,  1 8  July  1484,  Raoul9,  Vicomte  de 
Puysange,  b.  1462,  d.  13  Feb.  1520,  a  great- 
great-grandson  of  Reinault5,  Vicomte  de  Puy 
sange,  as  above.  Raoul9  de  Puysange  was  one 
of  the  Frenchmen  who  fought  under  Philibert 
de  Shaunde  in  the  Earl  of  Richmond's  behalf  at 
Bosworth,  and  he  was  rewarded  with  an  estate  in 
Devonshire,  including  Tiverton  Manor.  From 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         25 

him  descend  the  Pierson  family  of  Devon,  the 
head  of  which,  Lord  Tiverton,  was  attainted  in 
1745.  Raoul9  de  Puysange  and  Matthiette9 
d'Arnaye  had,  with  other  issue: 

Adeliza10  de  Puysange  (or  de  Pierson),  b. 
1500,  d.  6  Oct.  1537,  m.,  7  Oct.  1519,  Stephen 
Allonby,  ninth  Marquis  of  Falmouth,  b.  1494, 
d.  24  Nov.  1557.  He  was  a  great-grandson  (as 
was  also,  on  the  wrong  side  of  the  blanket,  Will 
Sommers,  the  King's  once-famous  jester)  of  the 
sixth  Marquis  of  Falmouth,  who  wooed,  without 
winning,  Adelais7  Vernon:  all  these  Allonbys, 
of  course,  being  descendants  of  that  first  Mar 
quis  who  in  the  thirteenth  century  was  a  notable  (The  Story  of 

r    i      i  9  -AT  r  theSesttna) 

leader  of  the  barons   party  against  Alianora  of 

Provence.  Stephen  Allonby  and  Adeliza10  de 
Puysange  had  issue:  Thomas11  Allonby,  bapt. 
3  Jan.  1521,  d.  unm.  1554;  Adela11  Allonby, 
bapt.  II  Sept.  1523,  m,  in  1540,  Sir  Edmund 
Floyer,  after  1555,  Lord  Rokesle;  George11 
Allonby,  called  Fitzroy,  bapt.  10  March  1526, 
d.  unm.  1 8  Feb.  1556;  and  Stephen11  Allonby. 

Stephen11  Allonby,  bapt.  7  June  1530,  d.  3 
Feb.  1596,  who  became  Marquis  of  Falmouth 
after  his  father's  death  in  1557,  m.,  in  June 
1559,  Katherine  Beaufort,  b.  March  1533,  d.  n 
Apr.  1576,  and  had,  with  numerous  other  issue: 
Gerald12  Allonby,  bapt.  24  March  1560,  d.  20 
Aug.  1625,  the  eleventh  Marquis  of  Falmouth, 
m.  his  cousin  Ursula12  Bulmer  (for  kinship, 


26         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

see  appended  Bulmer  Excursus)  and  left  issue6; 
and  Cynthia12  Allonby. 

Porcelain  Cynthia12  Allonby,  bapt.  13  Apr.  1576,  d.  3 

Oct.  1629,  m.  Captain  Edward  Musgrave,  b.  8 
Feb.  1570,  d.  1 6  March  1647.  This  couple  were 
among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  Colony  of 
Virginia.  Their  oldest  son,  their  only  offspring 
in  England,  died  an  infant,  but  after  their  immi 
gration  to  the  Colony  they  had  issue:  The- 
odorick13  Musgrave,  and  Stephen13  Musgrave, 
and  a  dau.,  Katherine13  Musgrave,  who  m. 
Lieutenant  Gervase  Woods.  For  a  detailed 
account  of  the  descendants  of  these  children, 
compare  R.  V.  Musgrave's  The  Mus graves  of 
Matocton. 

BULMER    EXCURSUS 

RANCIS  Orts  of  Stornoway'   had    two 
daughters:  Cicely  Orts,  m.,  circa  1525, 
Sir  Gerald  Beaufort  of  Tintagel,  and  had 
Katherine  Beaufort,  m.  Stephen11  Allonby,  and 
had  Gerald12  Allonby;  and  Aveline  Orts,   m., 
in  1529,  Henry  Heleigh,  Earl  of  Brudenel  (a 

6Among  the  sons  was  Sir  William  Allonby,  the  poet  and 
diplomat,  who  in  1626  published  the  first  book  of  a  proposed  met 
rical  version  (apparently  never  completed)  of  the  Roman  dt 
Lusignan. 

'The  head  of  a  once  distinguished  family  now  believed  to  be 
extinct  in  the  male  line.  The  last  bearer  of  the  surname  was  a 
debauched  clergyman,  Simon  Orts,  who  died  unmarried  in  the 
March  of  1750.  He  was  survived  by  a  younger  brother,  Frank 
Orts,  who  had,  however,  on  becoming  an  actor,  taken  the  name 
of  Francis  Vanringham.  The  career  of  the  last-named  worthy 
may  be  found  detailed  in  Thorsby's  Roscius  Anglicanus. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LICH  FIELD         27 


descendant  of  Jane7  Vernon,  as  above),  and  had 
Ursula  Heleigh,  m.  John11  Bulmer,  Earl  of 
Pevensey  >  and  had  Ursula12  Bulmer,  who,  as 
above,  m.  Gerald12  Allonby. 

Ursula12  Bulmer  was  the  second  dau.  of  John11 
Bulmer,  Earl  of  Pevensey,  b.  1532,  d.  30  Nov. 

iqyt:.    This  nobleman  was  a  descendant,  in  the 

?     ,  •  r  r»  i       r         (The  Story  of 

ninth  generation,  of  Roger3  Bulmer,  the  first  the  Tenson, 

Earl  of  Pevensey,  b.  1363,  the  natural  son  of  ^  Rat-Tr^p) 
Edward2  Longshanks  and  Hawise  Bulmer,  as 
will  be  later  shown.    Gerald12  Alloriby's  brother- 

in-law,  the  tenth  Earl,  was  George12  Bulmer,   , 

'  ,  T-1-         Porcelain 

b.  7  Nov.  1567,  d.  i  June  1593,  Queen  Eliza-  Cups 

beth's  favorite,  who,  in  Nov.  1589,  m.  Mary 
Heleigh,  b.  1570,  d.  28  Apr.  1592,  and  had 
issue  only:  John13  Bulmer,  the  eleventh  Earl,  b. 
27  Apr.  1592,  d.  1644,  who  left  numerous 
descendants. 

Among  them,  in  the  fifth  generation,  was  the  GALLANTRY 
soldier-statesman  John17   Bulmer,   b.    15   Apr.  ^J^*^s. 
1705,  d.  4  Dec.  1779,  better  known  to  history  as  sage,  In  the 
the  Duke  of  Ormskirk.    His  grace  of  Ormskirk 
m.,  in  May  1750  (as  is  duly  stated,  of  course,  in  The  Scape- 
Lowe's  Life)  Claire  Gabrielle  Antoinette17  dau. 
of  the  fourth  Due  de  Puysange,  who  was  (as  is 
not  made  clear  by  Lowe)  descended  from  the 
younger  brother  of  Raoul9  de  Puysange.    The 
dukedom  in  this  famous  French  family  dates 
back  no  further  than  1638. 

I   make  this  excursus   because  the   Bulmer 
family  also  has  its  representatives  today  in  Lich- 


28 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 


Love  at 
Martinmas, 
The  Casual, 
Honeymoon, 
The  Rhyme  to 
Porringer, 
Actors  All 


THE  CORDS 
OF  VANITY 


THE  EAGLE'S 
SHADOW 
THE  CREAM 
OF  THE  JEST 


THE  CORDS 
OF  VANITY 
FROM  THE 
HIDDEN  WAY 


field.  Lord  Gaston18  Bulmer,  b.  29  Nov.  1758, 
d.  31  Oct.  1809,  second  son  of  the  aforemen 
tioned  Duke  of  Ormskirk,  m.  Lady  Marian18 
Audaine,  b.  28  March  1760,  d.  26  Aug.  1803 
(dau.  of  Francis,  Lord  Garendon,  author  of  the 
once  widely  known  memoirs,  and  his  wife,  Doro 
thy17  Allonby,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Gerald12 
Allonby:  compare  Sparks'  Landed  Gentry,  in 
article  "Allonby  of  Shaw"),  came  to  America 
circa  1779-80,  surrendered  at  Yorktown,  and 
subsequently  made  his  home  in  Lichfield.  His 
only  dau.,  Clara19  Bulmer,  m.  Jonathan  Har- 
rowby  (compare  articles  "Harrowby  of  Monte 
video"  in  Lichfield  Hist.  Mag.,  Vol.  VI):  and  his 
great-grandson,  Felix21  Bulmer,  b.  16  July  1828 
d.  13  Nov.  1875,  the  inventor  of  Bulmer's  Bak 
ing  Powder,  m.  Ellen  Etheridge,  leaving  issue: 
George"  Bulmer,  b.  6  Sept.  1853;  Marian22 
Bulmer;  and  Claire22  Bulmer.  Of  these  daugh 
ters,  Marian22  Bulmer,  b.  3  June  1850,  d.  23 
Feb.  1883,  m.,  in  opposition  to  her  father's 
wishes,  Samuel  Kennaston,  and  had  issue:  Felix 
Bulmer23  Kennaston  (author  of  Men  Who  Loved 
Alison,  The  Tinctured  Veil,  The  King's  Quest, 
etc.),  b.  9  Dec.  1870,  m.  Kathleen  Saumarez 
(nee  Eppes,  of  the  old  Virginia  family),  but  had 
no  issue.  Claire22  Bulmer,  b.  6  Nov.  1855,  d.  5 
Aug.  1900,  m.  Theodore  Townsend,  b.  n  Sept. 
1848,  d.  17  Nov.  1884,  and  had  issue:  Robert 
Etheridge23  Townsend,  b.  23  Sept.  1877,  another 
noted  figure  in  the  world  of  letters,  author  of 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         29 

The  Apostates,  Afield,  The  Cords  of  Vanity, 
From  the  Hidden  Way,  etc. 

:  §  2 

3f|t\ANUELl   the  Redeemer,    Count  of  gggg8  OP 

'  Poictesme,b.  I2i3,d.  1239,  by  his  alli- 
f^  f  ance,  30  Apr.  1235,  with  Queen  Frey- 

dis  (who  lived  as  a  mortal  woman  from  30  Apr. 
1235  to  30  Apr.  1238),  became  the  progenitor  of 
certain  figures  of  earth,  which  were  animated,  by 
the  Tuyla  process,  with  sparks  of  the  magic  fire 
of  Audela.  Of  these  vivified  figures  the  first 
and  chief  was: 

Sesphra,  a  god  of  the  Philistines  (completing 
with  Ageus  and  Vel-Tyno  the  Trinity  of  the 
Shephelah),  b.  30  Apr.  1235.  For  the  myths 
and  ceremonies  connected  with  this  divinity, 
.the  reader  may  profitably  consult  Garnier's 
Recherches  sur  le  Culte  de  Sesphra  or  Douwer's 
Urgeschichte  der  Philistaer. 

To  the  ten  smaller  figures  which  Dom  Man 
uel1  modeled  of  the  image-makers  (compare  Les 
Gestes  de  Manuel,  in  the  seventeenth  and  twen 
ty-seventh  chapters),  and  which  he  left  unquick- 
ened  when  he  deserted  Freydis,  life  was  subse 
quently  loaned  by  her,  in  a  manner  somewhat  THE  CERTAIN 

TTfyTTP  -» 

too  complicated  to  be  explained  in  the  limited 
space  here  available.  Whereafter  these  figures, 

dln  Ackermann's  Volksagen,  IV,  196,  the  curious  may  find  an 
hypothesis — which,  although  it,  unluckily,  cannot  be  given  in  a 
volume  intended  for  general  circulation,  would  seem  in  connection 
with  the  above  rather  strikingly  significant, — to  account  for  the 
everywhere  prevalent  legends  of  Changelings. 


30         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

as  the  old  chap-book  has  it,  were  "eche  at  a 
certayne  Houre  .  .  .  sett  ...  to  Hue  among 
Mans  Kind,d  with  all  which  of  such  a  State 
aperteyneth:  to  grete  Hurtes  and  Harmes,  by 
Cause  that  these  x  Ymages  were  unlyke  to  Be 
ings  naturallie  conceyued,  in  so  much  that  they 
hadde  inside  them  Sparkes  and  smalle  Flamings 
of  the  Fyer  of  Audela." 

These  figures,  according  to  Codman  (Hand- 
book  of  Literary  Pioneers,  pp.  210-12),  were: 

Cavaliers  ^*    Raimbaut  de  Vaquieras  (or  de  Vaqueiras), 

poet  and  crusader,  b.  circa  1150,  d.  8  May  1225, 
m.,  in  May  1210,  Biatritz  de  Montferrat,"  then 
the  widow  of  Conrat,  Prince  of  Orange,  and 
previously  the  widow  of  the  Lord  of  Del  Carat. 
It  is  noticeable  that  in  this,  the  first  figure 
quickened  by  Freydis  unaided,  the  magic  was 
misdirected  through  inexperience,  and  the  life  of 
Raimbaut  (for  which,  compare  Raynouard's 
Choix  des  poesies  originates  des  Troubadours, 
Vol.  Ill,  p.  258,  and  Vol.  V,  p.  417,  Paris, 
1816-20)  was  precipitated  into  the  past.  Raim 
baut  de  Vaquieras  had  no  issue. 

II.    Alessandro  de  Medici/  aesthete,  Duke  of 

•The  circumstances  of  this  marriage  have  been  recorded  else 
where.  The  story  of  this  couple's  original  entry  into  amorous 
relations,  however,  is  perhaps  best  left  to  the  discreet  obscurity  of 
the  Provencal,  which  depicts  the  lady  as  equally  unembarrassed 
by  shyness  and  the  fact  that  her  first  husband  was  then  living: 
"Ma  dona  Biatritz  li  dis  que  be  fos  el  vengut;  e  que  s'esforses  de 
ben  far  e  de  ben  dire  e  de  valer,  e  qu'ela  lo  volia  retener  per  cavayer 
e  per  servidor.  Don  Raimbaut  s'esforset  d'enansar  son  pretz  tan 
quan  poc." 

'The  name  and  arms  borne  by  him  are  somewhat  incredibly 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         31 

Citta  di  Penna,  Duke  of  Florence,  &c.,  b.  circa 
1512,  d.  5  Jan.  1537,  m.  Margaret  of  Austria, 
but  had  by  her  no  issue.  He  left  three  illegiti 
mate  children:  Giulio,  who  entered  the  church, 
and  became  grand  prior  of  the  order  of  S.  Ste- 
fano;  Porcia,  who  took  the  veil,  and  founded 
the  convent  of  S.  Clement  at  Florence;  and 
Juliet,  who  m.  Francesco  Cantelmo,  but  left  no 
issue:  the  line  thus  becoming  extinct.  Compare 
Tenh.  Mem.  Gem.  liv.  XXII,  p.  62:  and  see  also 
Checino's  Storia  del  Granducato  di  Toscana  sotto 
il  governo  d'Alessandro  de  Medici. 

III.     William  Shakespeare,  poet  and  master   Judith's 
of  the  pastiche,  author  of  Richard  the   Third,     re 
The  Taming  of  the  Shrew,  Hamlet,  Troilus  and 
Cressida,  The  Winter  s  Tale,  &c.,  bapt.  26  Apr. 
1564,  d.  23  Apr.  1616,  m.,  in  Nov.  1582,  Ann 
Hathaway.    There  is  a  tradition  (compare  The 
Mus graves  of  Matocton,  p.  33)  that  this  play 
wright  was  enamored  of  Cynthia12  Allonby  (as, 
certainly,  was  Christopher  Marlowe)/  and  that   (Porcelain 
she    was    the    Dark    Lady    commemorated    in 

explained  by  Verini  (de  Illust.  Urbis,  lib.  Ill):  "Est  qui  Bebryaca 
Medices  testetur  ab  urbe  venisse;  ^et  Toscam  sobolem  delesse 
superbam  asserat:  hinc  Medicis  meruit  cognomen  habere  quod 
Medicus  Tosci  fuerit,  sic  ore  venenum  dixerunt  patrio:  factiquc 
insignia  portet  senis  in  globulis  flaventem  sanguine  peltam." 

'Indeed  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  letter  comparing  her 
to  Helen,  in  the  quaint  French  which  Colonel  Musgrave  modern 
izes,  was  the  rough  draft  of  the  famous  passage  in  Dr.  Faustus: 
"Viola  done  la  figure  qui  langa  mille  navires  et  fit  tomber  les  tours 
d'llion.  .  .  .  Oh!  tu  es  plus  belle  que  la  nuit  vetue  de  la  beaute 
de  milliers  d'etoiles.  Tu  es  plus  brillante  que  Jupiter  en  feu, 
quand  il  apparut  a  I'infortune  Semele.  Tu  es  plus  belle  que  le 
monarque  du  ciel,  dans  les  bras  azures  de  la  capricieuse  Arethusel" 


Concerning 
Corinna 


Olivia's 
Pottage 


32         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

Shakespeare's  Sonnets.  William  Shakespeare 
had  issue:  Susanna  Shakespeare,  b.  May  1583, 
d.  II  July  1649,  m.  John  Hall,  and  had  issue 
only  a  dau.,  Elizabeth  Hall,  b.  Feb.  1608,  d. 
Feb.  1670,  m.  (i)  Thomas  Nash,  and  (2)  Sir' 
John  Bernard,  but  had  by  neither  husband  any 
issue;  Hamnet  Shakespeare,  only  son,  b.  Jan. 
1585,  d.  Aug.  1596;  and  Judith  Shakespeare,  b. 
Jan.  1585,  d.  9  Feb.  1662,  m.  Thomas  Quiney, 
but  left  no  descendants  surviving  her. 

IV.  Robert  Herrick,  clergyman  and  Rosicru- 
cian,  author  of  Hesperides,  Noble  Numbers,  &c., 
bapt.  24  Aug.  1591,  d.  unm.  Oct.  1674.     For  a 
curious  account  of  his  end,  compare  Borsdale's 
Pathologic  a  Dczmonica,  in  the  fourth  chapter.* 

V.  William  Wycherley,  dramatist  and  man 
of  fashion,   author  of   The  Plain   Dealer,    The 
Country  Wife,  &c.,  b.  circa  1640,  d.  Dec.  1715, 
m.,    in    1680,    Olivia,    Lady    Drogheda,    nee 
Chichele,  and  (2),  in  Dec.  1715,  Ann  Jackson, 
but  left  no  issue  by  either  marriage.     There 

*Borsdale's  comment  thereon,  as  preserved  elsewhere,  seems 
sufficiently  quaint  to  be  recorded:  "Surely  such  Astrologers  are 
Erra  Pater's  Disciples,  and  the  D>ivel's  Professors,  swaddling  hell- 
nurtured  Wisdom  in  spurious  ^enigmatical  doubtful  Tearmes,  like 
the  Oracle  at  Delphos.  What  a  high  Dotage  and  shameless 
Impudence  is  in  these  men,  who  aspire  to  knowe  more  than  shining 
Saints  and  Angels!  Can  they  read  other  Men's  fates  by  those 
glorious  Characters  the  Starres,  being  ignorant  of  their  owne? 
Qui  sibi  nescius  cui  prcescius?  If  all  were  served  as  this  uppstarte 
Herrick,  with  his  Devill  in  a  Christal,  his  horrid  Flie  in  a  Box,  we 
should  have  none  that  would  relye  so  confidently  on  the  falshood 
of  their  Ephemerides,  and  in  some  manner  shake  off  all  divine 
providence,  dreaming  to  make  themselves  equal  with  GOD, 
between  whom  and  Man  the  greatest  difference  is  taken  away,  if 
Man  should  foreknow  more  than  his  own  ignorant  unworth." 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         33 

seems  to  be  nowhere  any  satisfactory  Life  ot 
Wycherley,  but  Major  Pack's  gossip  is  valuable. 

VI.  Alexander  Pope,   a  cripple,   author  of  A  Brown 
The  Rape  of  the  Lock,  The  Dunciad,  &c.,  b.  22 

May  1688,  d.  unm.  30  May  1744.  Compare  his 
Life  by  Deetz,  Leipsig,  1876. 

VII.  Horace  Calverley,  Lord  Ufford,  virtu-  Pro  Honoria 
oso  and  diarist,  author  of  Sixpenny  Satires,  The 

Vassal  of  Spalatro,  &c.,  b.  22  Apr.  1725,  d. 
unm.  28  Jan.  1762.  His  Works  have  not  re 
cently  been  reprinted,  but  all  editions  that  I 
have  seen  contain  Wharton's  judicious  biog 
raphy;  and  Pater's  inedited  essay,  if  it  can  be 
come  by,  is  critically  valuable. 

VIII.  Richard  Brinsley  Sheridan,  dramatist  The 
and  mountebank,  author  of  The  School  for  Scan-  ogle 
dal,  the  arraignment  of  Warren  Hastings,  a  vast 
number  of  I.  O.  U's,  &c.,  b.  Sept.  1751,  d.  July 
1816,  m.  (i),  in  1773,  Elizabeth  Linley,  and  (2) 

in  1795,  Esther  Jane  Ogle,  by  whom  he  had  no 
issue.  For  the  descendants  of  the  first  mar 
riage,  too  numerous  to  be  catalogued  here,  the 
reader  is  referred  to  Perkins'  Life  of  Mrs.  Nor 
ton,  and  Burke's  Peerage  and  Baronetage, 
articles  "Dufferin"  and  "Somerset." 

IX.  Hilary    Rudolph    of    Saxe-Kesselberg,  A  Princess  of 

•  ,.  ,  r    ,h>    Grub  Street 

critic  and  essayist,  editor  and  annotator  of  the 

texts  of  Sophocles,  Saevius  Nicanor,  Praxagoras, 
&c.,  b.  2  Aug.  1780,  d.  27  Jan.  1848,  who,  in 
1803,  took  the  name  of  Paul  Vanderhoffen,  m., 
in  Sept.  1805,  Mildred19  Claridge. 


34 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 


GALLANTRY: 

The 

Scapegoats 


In    the   Second 
April,  Heart  of 
Gold,  The 
Scapegoats, 
The  Ducal 
Audience, 
Love's 
Alumni 


A  Princess  of 
Grub  Street 


Paul  Vanderhoffen  traced  his  descent  from  the 
old  Princes  de  Gatinais,  elsewhere  mentioned, 
in  the  following  line:  Antoine,  Prince  de  Gatin 
ais,  Marquis  de  Soyecourt,  &c.,  b.  I  May 
1670,  d.  18  Sept.  1750,  m.  (2nd)  in  Oct.  1708, 
the  Princess  Clotilda  Agatha  of  Noumaria,  and 
had  issue  only:  Louis  de  Soyecourt,  b.  26  Nov. 
1709,  guillotined  9  Jan.  1793,  Prince  de  Gatinais 
after  Sept.  1750,  Grand-Duke  of  Noumaria 
175055,  who  m.,  in  Nov.  1750,  Victoria  von 
Uhm,  and  had  issue:  Anthony  Augustus,  Grand- 
Duke  of  Noumaria  1755-87;  Prince  Ludwig, 
whose  old-world  verses  yet  lurk  in  anthologies, 
and  were  remarkably  commended  by  a  greater 
brother  in  Apollo;*  and  Agatha.  Princess 
Agatha  of  Noumaria,  b.  2  Dec.  1755,  d.  8  Apr. 
1785,  m.  Rudolph  Wilhelm  Sebastien  Friedrich, 
Crown  Prince  of  Saxe-Kesselberg,  b.  25  Aug. 
1753,  d.  8  Apr.  1785,  and  had  issue:  Hilary 
Rudolph,  known  later  as  Paul  Vanderhoffen. 

Paul  Vanderhoffen  m.,  as  has  been  said, 
Mildred19  Claridge  (a  child  of  Lord  John 
Claridge,  the  Egyptologist,  and  his  wife  Lady 
Helen18  Bulmer,  dau.  of  the  first  Duke  of  Orms- 
kirk),  and  they  had,  with  other  issue:  Mildred 
Stella10  Vanderhoffen,  b.  4  Nov.  1807,  d.  22 
July  1855,  m.  (2nd  wife)  Theodorick  Quentin 
Musgrave,  governor  and  judge,  b.  17  Jan.  1780, 

*Heine's  words  will  bear  repetition:  "Die  harmonischen  Verse 
umschlingen  dein  Herz  wie  eine  zartliche  Geliebte;  das  Wort 
umarmt  dich,  wahrend  der  Gedanke  dich  kiisst." 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         35 

d.  13  Oct.  1850,  and  had,  with  other  issue: 
Lieutenant  Colonel  William  Sebastian21  Mus- 
grave,  C.  S.  A.,  b.  8  May  1829,  d.  3  July  1863,  THE  RIVET  IN 
m.  Martha  Allardyce.  Among  the  children  of 
this  last  marriage  was  Colonel  Rudolph22  Mus-  NECK 
grave,  the  noted  genealogist,  from  whose  schol 
arly  compilation,  The  Musgraves  of  Matocton, 
this  data  is  derived. 

X.  John  Charteris,  novelist,  author  of  In  The  Lady  of  All 
Old  Lichfreld,  Ashtarottis  Lackey,  &c.,  b.  22  BEYOND  LIFE, 
Nov.  1857,  d.  15  Sept.  1903,  m.,  22  Nov.  1893,  gf^oros  ' 
Anne  Willoughby,  but  left  no  surviving  legiti-  THE  RIVET  IN 
mate  issue.  The  only  child  of  this  couple  was  a 
son,  Holland  Charteris,  b.  i  Feb.  1895,  d.  19  NECK 
Jan.  1899. 

§3 

ANUEL1  the  Redeemer,  Count  of  ^^8  °F 
Poictesme,  b.  1213,  d.  1239,  by  his 
alliance,  in  Sept.  1238,  with  Alianora 
of  Provence,  b.  circa  1220,  d.  24  June  1291,  then 
the  wife  of  King  Henry  the  Third  of  England, 
supplied  an  heir  for  England,  in  the  person  of:  CHIVALRY: 

Edward2  Longshanks.     Compare  Les  Gestes  de  ™e/to?y  °f 

,    •       ,        ,  •         r         11  i  theSestma 

Manuel,  in  the  thirty-fourth  chapter:   the   au 
thorities7  for  all  this   portion  of  the   pedigree, 

»M.  Paris,  M.  of  West.,  Walt.  Hem.  Chron.,  Paulus  Emilius, 
De  Ant.  Leg.  Lib.  (Cam.  Soc.),  Rymer's  Fcedera,  Piers  Langtoft, 
Leland's  Collectanea,  Polydore  Vergil,  Guthrie  folio  Hist.,  Caley's 
Feeder  a,  Dom  Morice  Chron.  de  Bretagne,  MS.  Chron.  of  Nantes, 
Titus  Livius  of  Friuli,  Guillaume  de  Gruel,  Wm.  of  Wore.,  Chron. 
T.  Wikes,  Annals  of  Margan,  Wav.  Annals,  Annals  of  Burton, 
Nich.  Trivet,  Chron.  Melrose,  T.  Walshingham  Hist,  of  Kings, 
W.  Thorn  Chron. ,  H.  Knighton,  G.  le  Baker  of  Swinbroke,  &c. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 


The  Story  of 
the  Tenson 


(FIGURES^  OF 
EARTH) 


The  Story  of 
the  Rat-Trap 


The  Story  of 
the  Choices 


The  Story  of 
the  Housewife 


however,  have  been  enumerated  by  Verville  in 
both  editions  of  his  Notice  sur  la  vie  de  Nicolas 
de  Caeny  in  the  sixth  chapter,  and  need  not  here 
be  cited. 

Edward2  Longshanks,  b.  16  June  1239,  King 
of  England  after  1272,  d.  7  July  1307,  had  by 
Hawise  Bulmer,  b.  1242,  d.  28  Oct.  1270,  a 
natural  son,  Roger8  Bulmer,  first  Earl  of  Peven- 
sey,  b.  July  1263,  d.  circa  1320,  who  left  issue, 
and  descendants  as  aforetime  recorded.  Ed 
ward2  Longshanks  in.  (i),  in  Aug.  1254,  Ellinor 
of  Castile,  b.  1244,  d.  29  Nov.  1290  (dau.  of 
that  St.  Ferdinand,  King  of  Castile  and  Leon, 
whom  Dom  Manuel1  converted  from  wicked 
ness),  and  had,  with  other  issue:  Edward3  of 
Caernarvon.  Edward2  Longshanks  m.  (2),  8 
Sept.  1297,  Meregrett  of  France,  b.  1281,  d.  14 
Feb.  1317,  and  had,  with  other  issue:  Edmund*, 
Earl  of  Kent,  b.  1302,  who  in  turn  had  issue: 
Joan4  of  Kent,  m.  (i)  Sir  Thomas  Holland,  and 
(2),  as  hereinafter,  Edward5  the  Black  Prince. 

Edward3  of  Caernarvon,  b.  25  Apr.  1284, 
King  of  England  after  1307,  murdered  by  his 
wife's  orders  22  Sept.  1327,  m.,  23  Jan.  1308, 
Ysabeau  of  France,  b.  1295,  d.  22  Aug.  1358, 
and  had: 

Edward4  of  Windsor,  b.  13  Nov.  1312,  King 
of  England  after  1327,  d.  21  June  1377,  m.,  24 
Jan.  1328,  Philippa  of  Hainault,  b.  1312,  d.  14 
Aug.  1369,  and  had,  with  other  issue:  Edward* 
the  Black  Prince;  Lionel5  of  Clarence,  b.  29  Nov. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         37 

1338;  John6  of  Gaunt;  Edmund5  of  York,   b. 

1 344;  and  Thomas5  of  Gloucester,  b .  1 3  54.  The  Story  °f 

r>i          ii    i       T>I      i    r»  •  T  the  Satraps 

Edward5  the  Black  rnnce,  b.  15  June  1330, 

d.  8  June  1376,  m.  (i),  in  Sept.   1360,  Alixe 

Riczi  (dau.  of  Gilbert,  Vicomte  de  Montbrison), 

b.  1342,  d.  Aug.  1361,  and  had  issue:  Edward* 

Plantagenet,  known  as  Edward  Maudelain,  b. 

Aug.    1361,    d.    unm.    Feb.    1400.      Edward* 

the   Black   Prince   m.    (2),    10  Oct.    1361,   his 

cousin,  Joan4  of  Kent,  as  above,  and  by  her  had  the  Heritage 

issue: 

Richard6  of  Bordeaux,  b.  13  Apr.  1366,  d.  26  the  Scabbard 
Feb.  1441,  King  of  England  after  1377,  who, 
following  his  dethronement  in  1400,  took  the 
name  of  Richard  Holland.    He  m.  (i),  14  Jan. 
1382,  Anne  of  Bohemia,  b.   1367,  d.  7  June 

1394,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue;  m.  (2),  i  Nov. 

1395,  Isabel  of  Valois,  b.  9  Nov.  1387,  d.  13 
Sept.  1410,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue;  m.  (3) 
30  June  1403,  Branwen  of  Wales,  b.  1385,  d. 
Jan.    1423,    by  whom   he   had    four   children. 
Compare,  for  the  descendants  of  his  second  son, 
"The  Hollands  of  Lichfield,"  in  Lichfield  Hist. 
Mag.,  Vols.  Ill,  IV. 


John5  of  Gaunt,  as  above,  b.  24  June  1340, 
d.  3  Feb.  1399,  m.  (i)  Blanche  of  Lancaster,  by 
whom  he  had  issue: 

Henry6  of  Derby,  known  also  as  Bolingbroke, 

and  after  1400  as  King  Henry  the  Fourth  of  The  Story  of 

ngland,  b.  1366,  d.  20  March  1413,  m.  (i),  theScabbard 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 


The  Story  of 
the  Navarrese 


The  Story  of 
the  Fox-Brush 


in  1381,  Mary  Bohun,  and  (2),  by  procuration 
3  Apr.  1402,  in  person  7  Feb.  1403,  Jehane  of 
Navarre,  b.  1372,  d.  9  July  1437,  then  the 
widow  of  Duke  Jehan  of  Brittany.  Queen 
Jehane  subsequently  m.,  as  her  third  husband, 
Antoine  Riczi,  Vicomte  de  Montbrison.  By  his 
second  marriage  Henry6  of  Derby  had  no  chil 
dren;  by  his  first  marriage  he  had  issue: 

Henry7  of  Monmouth,  b.  19  Aug.  1387,  King 
of  England  after  1413,  d.  31  Aug.  1422,  m.,  3 
June  1420,  Katharine  of  Valois,  b.  27  Oct.  1401, 
d.  3  Jan.  1437.  After  his  death  she  m.  (2) 
Owain  Tudor.  Henry7  of  Monmouth  had  issue 
only: 

Henry8  of  Windsor,  b.  6  Dec.  1421,  King  of 
England  after  1422,  dethroned  in  1465,  d.  21 
May  1471.  His  downfall,  through  his  wife's 
relations  with  the  Duke  of  Suffolk,  and  the  ex 
tinction  of  this  line  of  Manuel's  descendants, 
are  narrated  in  Le  Cocu  Rouge,  that  very  curious 
romance  erroneously,  I  think,  ascribed  by  Hin- 
sauf  to  Nicolas  de  Caen,  and  never  as  yet,  I 
believe,  put  into  English. 


Exit 

I  make  an  end  of  writing,  now  that 
my  vogue  is  over,  now  that  the  blazing 
and  sulphureous  splendors  which  went 
everywhere  before  me  are  thinning  like  blown 
smoke.  .  .  .  The  signs  are  many  that  there 
has  been  a  slump  in  Cabell  stock.  The  literary 
supplement  that  only  recently  had  a  "Cabell 
number"  now  has  a  review  of  Figures  of  Earthy 
written  by  Maurice  Hewlett,  who  has  himself 
made  a  specialty  of  the  mediaeval  romance, 
and  who  says  he  never  heard  of  the  word 
"geas,"  and  who  contemptuously  dismisses 
Cabell's  work  as  a  pretentious  and  often 
meaningless  jargon — "parading  a  science  it 
does  not  possess" — elaborately  concocted  to 
impose  upon  the  credulous  reading  public. 
And  still  another  Englishman,  the  scholarly 
Solomon  Eagle,  has  expressed  a  similar  opinion. 
Now  if  only  the  agreeable  Mr.  Hugh  Walpole 
will  turn  a  similar  flip-flop,  the  Cabell  balloon 
may  completely  collapse. 

— Thus  far  the  New  York  Globe,  with  rather 
unaccountable  omission  of  any  applause  for  Mr. 
Richard  Le  Gallienne's  shocked  fulminations 
against  Cabell, — unaccountable,  I  say,  because 
the  erstwhile  fumbler  with  the  Golden  Girl's 
underwear  went  about  his  assassinatory  labors 
with  far  more  dexterity  than  did  either  of  the 

39 


40         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

other  British  battlers  for  nineteenth-century 
traditions.  Indeed  Mr.  Hewlett  did  but  arise — 
with  words  more  keen  than  the  scissors  with 
which  he  nowadays  writes  novels  "based  upon" 
Icelandic  sagas — to  proclaim  that,  since  he  per 
sonally  had  never  heard  of  a  variety  of  matters 
to  be  found  in  any  encyclopaedia*,  for  anyone 
else  to  have  knowledge  of  these  things  was 
wantonness  and  coxcombery  and  mere  frivolity; 
whereas  Mr.  Squire  evinced  his  somewhat  less 
readily  explicable  wrath  with  inarticulate  bel- 
lowings  and  beatings  upon  the  editorial  desk, 
and  with  objurgations  against  Jurgen  for  failing 
to  satisfy  his  curiosity.  I  do  not  know  what  he 
was  curious  about,  and  it  would  be,  perhaps, 
imprudent  to  inquire;  but  upon  one  point,  at 
least,  it  was  clear  that  the  critical  ingenu  of  the 
London  Mercury  was  in  whole-hearted  accord 
with  the  two  hardier  survivors  of  no  inconsider 
able  talents.  All  were  agreed  that  either  the 
lungs  of  the  right-minded  or  else  the  Cabell 
balloon  must  be  burst. 

Well,  I  shall  be,  in  some  ways,  rather  sorry  to 
see  this  Cabell  pass  to  oblivion.  For  I  foresee 
that  he  will  pass  quickly  now.  He  was  nour- 

fcWith  real  astonishment  one  gathers,  for  example,  that  Mr. 
Hewlett  is  not  sufficiently  acquainted  with  the  familiar  story  of 
Melusine  to  know  that  the  Albania  over  which  King  Helmas 
reigned  was  in  Scotland;  that  he  is  not  aware  St.  Ferdinand  was 
King  of  Castile  and  Leon;  that  his  knowledge  of  Gaelic  legend 
does  not  extend  to  the  very  common  word  "geas,"  or  to  the 
famous  fairy  song  "Pighin,  pighin,  da  phighin,  pighin  go  ieith 
agus  Ieith  phighin;"  and  that  he  is  even  ignorant  of  the  cries  which 
the  Talmudic  stories  about  Solomon  ascribed  to  the  various  birds. 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         41 

ished,  he  was  bred  and  fattened  and  sustained, 
entirely  upon  newspaper  paragraphs;  and  our 
literary  editors  retain  a  naive  faith  in  anything, 
except,  of  course,  the  pound  sterling,  which 
emanates  from  England.  You  may  notice  the 
decisive  turn  of  the  above  "And  yet  another 
Englishman,"  as  if  that  quite  settled  the  affair. 
But  that  is  hardly  all.  Most  of  the  reviewers,  I 
fancy,  are  sufficiently  like  me  to  have  grown  a 
little  tired  of  so  much  tall  talk  about  Cabell,  and 
to  think  it  high  time  the  monotony  was  varied. 
So  this  Cabell,  too,  must  pass,  with  all  the  other 
novelists  who  have  had  their  brief  hour  of  being 
"talked  about";  and  this  Cabell,  too,  must 
presently  be  at  one  with  Marie  Corelli  and 
Maurice  Hewlett  and  Elinor  Glyn  and  Richard 
Le  Gallienne  and  Mrs.  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 


I  repeat  that,  in  some  \vays,  I  am  sorry  to 
see  the  passing  of  this  Cabell.  I  found  it  inter 
esting  to  read  about  this  Cabell's  romantic 
irony,  his  cosmic  japes,  his  bestial  obscenities, 
his  well-nigh  perfect  prose,  his  soaring  imagina 
tion,  his  corroding  pessimism,  and  all  the  rest 
of  the  critical  chorus.  It  loaned  each  Wednes 
day  (when  the  clippings  from  my  bureau  come 
in  on  the  first  mail)  quite  an  exciting  morning, 
and  it  sustained  me  well  toward  lunch  time  with 
prideful  thoughts  that  I  was  more  or  less  iden 
tified  with  such  a  remarkable  person. 


42          I  HE  LINEAGE  OF  LI  CH  FIELD 

To  the  other  side,  I  shall,  upon  the  whole, 
rejoice  at  the  passing  of  this  Cabell.    One  very 
positive  benefit  will  be  the  saving  in  the  matter 
of  my  bills  for  the  aforementioned  press-clip 
pings;  and  the  devotion  to  some  better  purpose 
of  the  time  which  I  of  late  have  squandered  on 
the  process  of  inserting  these  clippings  (almost 
uniformly  idiotic)  in  my  scrap-books.     I  shall 
be  left  unmolested  by  the  bother  of  autograph 
ing  my  novels  and  wrapping  them  up  again,  and, 
occasionally,  of  supplying  the  return  postage, 
and,   not   infrequently,   of  finding  these   same 
volumes  on  sale  next  week  at  the  second-hand 
book  dealer's,  as  "presentation  copies."    I  shall 
no  longer  be  invited  to  lecture  before  mature 
and    earnest-minded    and    generally    appalling 
females,  whom  it  is  not  possible  to  convince  that 
the  fact  of  my  having  written  a  book  or  two  can 
no  more  qualify  me  to  enliven  their  foregather- 
ings  with  a  lecture  than  with  a  violin  solo.    The 
younger  of  the  sex  will  no  longer  evince  via 
voluminous  epistles  their  willingness  to  marry 
me,  or  even  to  dispense  with  the  ceremony;  and 
I  shall  be  spared  the  trouble  of  concealing  these 
letters  from  my  wife,  who  emphasizes  her  disap 
proval  of  such  notions  by  an  offensive  eagerness 
to  pack  my  things  for  the  suggested  trips.    And 
I  shall  even  return,  in  time,  to  the  old  orderly 
enjoyable  reading  of  newspapers  and  magazines 
without  any  first  feverish  skimming  through  the 
pages  to  see  what  this  issue  contains  about  me. 


7 HE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         43 

Yes,  certainly,  oblivion  has  its  merits,  to 
which  I  now  direct  a  brightening  eye.  Now,  no 
longer  will  the  publishers'  agreement,  not  to 
woo  away  the  writers  brought  out  by  some  other 
house,  be  honorably  preserved  by  each  deputing 
his  pet  author  to  transmit  nefarious  suggestions 
through  personal  visits  to  me;  and  now,  chief  of 
all,  will  magazine  editors  desist  from  disturbing 
my  entranced  concoction  of  a  book  with  offers 
of  incredible  and  iniquitous  prices  for  "some 
thing  in  the  short  story  line."  Yes,  but  iniqui 
tous  is  a  too  mild  description  of  these  allures 
when,  as  may  happen,  you  have  a  wife  uncursed 
by  dumbness  or  a  child  to  whom  in  common- 
sense  you  owe  it  to  earn  as  much  money  as  can 
be  come  by  reputably.  For  you  can  think  of 
no  possible  excuse,  none  plausible  at  least  to 
domestic  inspection,  not  to  put  by  the  book,  and 
let  it  wait,  while  you  "dash  off"  a  few  thousand 
words,  in  full  consciousness  that  if  you  turn  out 
balderdash  your  employer  will  be  as  touches 
you  quite  satisfied,  and  as  concerns  his  readers' 
approval  of  the  speculation  vastly  reassured. 
And  the  artist  really  must — though  there  is  no 
explaining  it — work  either  just  at  what  he 
chooses  or  else  toward  exhaustion  as  an  artist. 

In  fine,  the  passing  of  this  boom  will  permit 
me  once  more  to  do,  unmeddled-with,  what  I 
prefer  to  do.  That  is,  for  some  of  us,  a  privilege 
not  at  any  price  to  be  purchased  exorbitantly. 


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So  I  stand  ready  to  join  forces  with  Messrs. 
Hewlett  and  Squire  and  Le  Gallienne.  I  yield 
to  the  right-minded.  I  abandon  the  above- 
mentioned  privileges  of  fame:  and  I  dismiss  him, 
this  overmuch  be-paragraphed  Cabell,  into 
the  limbo  of  out-of-dateness  wherein  abide,  with 
always  rarer  and  more  spectral  revisitations  of 
the  public  eye,  the  wraiths  of  Marie  Corelli  and 
Maurice  Hewlett  and  Elinor  Glyn  and  Richard 
Le  Gallienne  and  Mrs.  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 


And  in  departing  I  would  smile  friendlily 
toward  those  who  understand  the  nature  of  this 
withdrawal;  but  to  others  I  would  say,  as  courte 
ously  as  may  be,  that — well,  that,  at  the  re 
quest  of  friends,  a  considerable  portion  of  my 
original  manuscript  has  here  been  deleted.  For 
so  long  as  the  author  and  publishers  of  Jurgen 
remain  disfigurements  to  the  criminal  classes, 
a  certain  reticence  is  required  of  me  in  ad 
dressing  the  general  public. 

I  may  say  at  least,  though,  that  the  general 
public  has  now  very  tolerable  authority  for 
abandoning  all  talk  about  this  Cabell's  being  a 
literary  artist.  This  present  bit  of  writing,  to 
begin  with,  may  be  regarded  as  exculpatory  evi 
dence.  Moreover,  Hewlett  and  Le  Gallienne 
were  no  great  while  ago  quite  respectable  names, 
which  even  in  their  owners'  auctorial  de 
crepitude  may  still  pass  muster  among,  any- 


THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD         45 

how,  the  general  public;  whereas  Mr.  Squire 
enjoys,  everywhere  that  anybody  has  read  as 
much  as  is  humanly  possible  in  the  London 
Mercury,  a  deservedly  high  repute  for  many 
very  handsome  expressions  of  the  mediocre  in 
terms  of  the  academic.  Such  are  the  not  un- 
formidable  trio  that  have  emulated  Goliath, 
and  come  forth  beautifully  clad  in  brass  to  bat 
tle  for  the  faith  of  Philistia.  And  I,  for  one,  can 
feel  no  hesitancy  in  endorsing  these  gentlemen's 
protests  that,  by  every  standard  illustrated  in 
their  recent  writings,  I  have  no  claim  whatever 
to  be  considered  a  literary  artist;  and  I,  for  one, 
derive  from  their  admonitory  utterances  a  warn 
ing  perhaps  more  salutary  than  intended. 

For  the  moral  which  I  personally  educe  is 
that,  in  this  world,  wherein  no  fervor  endures 
for  a  long  while,  and  every  clock-tick  brings  the 
infested  tepid  globe  a  little  nearer  to  the  moon's 
white  nakedness  and  quiet,  the  wise  will  play 
while  playing  is  permitted.  The  playthings 
will  be  words,  because  a  man  finds  nowhere  any 
lovelier  toys.  The  wise  will  have  their  small, 
high-hearted  hour  of  playing,  with  onlookers  to 
applaud. 

Then  vigor  abates,  and  therewith  dwindles 
their  adroitness  at  this  gaming.  The  skill  that 
was  once  their  glory  has  become  their  derision; 
to  Richard-Yea-and-Nay  succeeds  a  Main- 
waring,  and  gray  Narcissus  bleats  angry  pieties. 
At  this  season  will  the  gamester  who  is  truly 


46         THE  LINEAGE  OF  LI CH FIELD 

wise — thus  I  console  myself — give  over  his  play 
ing,  sedately,  without  any  corybantic  buttings 
of  a  bald  head  or  any  gnashing  of  old  teeth  to 
affray  his  juniors  who  may,  as  yet,  thrive  at  this 
game.  His  hour  is  over,  but  the  end  of  their 
hour  too  approaches,  not  to  be  stayed.  He  will 
make  this  savory  thought  serve  as  a  drug  to 
envy,  and  as  a  liniment  to  his  bruised  vanity, 
and  as  a  muffler  to  the  thin-voiced  spite  of  all 
outworn  old  women  that  inhabit  Oblivion's 
seraglio.  Wherein  abide — but  you  already 
know  my  refrain. 


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